sackcloth

Who acts: beggar · What happens: make, wear, show, dress · To what, where: rough coarse cloth, sacking, sadness, She, garment, sackcloth

«sackcloth» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: sackcloth in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to show sadness or sorrow.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rough	punct
4	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cloth	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 sacking	case
8	sacking	sacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worn	punct
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 worn	advmod
11	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sacking	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 worn	advcl
14	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 sorrow	cc
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sadness	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cloth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	participle	a rough coarse cloth not said here	sacking		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from sacking=Material
2	wear	participle	sacking not said here		once property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	show	to-infinitive	sadness or sorrow			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sadness=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Example 1

She had been dressed in a garment of sackcloth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dressed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garment	det
7	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sackcloth	case
9	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garment	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · perfect · passive		She		a garment of sackcloth			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Example 2

The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beggar	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ashes	cc
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sackcloth	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the beggar	sackcloth and ashes					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Source

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